Transportation Leader - Missouri

Employee Referral Amount $5,000

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next  Missouri Transportation Leader for our St. Louis office to work within the Infrastructure/Transportation business practice.  The selected candidate will work under the direct supervision the Transportation Practice Leader with a focus on roadway, bridge, water and railway related projects.  The Missouri Transportation Leader will provide leadership for the successful delivery of projects and grow the transportation practice within the St. Louis office to service the eastern half of Missouri as well as southern Illinois marketplace.  The candidate should have demonstrated experience in delivering projects, as well as managing client relationships for the Missouri Department of Transportation, City of St. Louis, surrounding counties and municipalities, Metro Transit and Class I freight rail clients.  This is a seller-doer roll that requires someone with entrepreneurial sprit and demonstrated success in delivering quality solutions for that meet client needs and exceed their expectations.

What a day at EXP has in store for you 

• Provide leadership for the successful delivery of transportation projects of varying size and complexity;
• Work with transportation team members from other offices to build diverse project teams;
• Recruit, train, develop and retain local transportation staff to successfully deliver projects;
• Negotiate and manage budgets and help ensure financial performance objectives are achieved for each project;
• Build and maintain client relationships, develop new clients and win work for the Infrastructure/Transportation Practice;
• Supervise and direct staff engineers and technicians to meet project deadlines as well as scope and budget requirements; and
• Work with leadership team within the Infrastructure/Transportation Practice, as well as across EXP’s Practice Groups, to develop and carry out our mission.
• Represent EXP through professional association membership and participation and at industry events.

What your experience looks like

• 15+ years of progressively responsible relevant experience
• BS in Civil Engineering
• Licensed PE in the State of Missouri, a PE License in Illinois would be desirable, but not required
• Proven record of client relationship development and maintenance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to direct and supervise staff engineers and technicians
• Strong leadership, project management skills and the ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to recruit, grow and mentor staff
• Demonstrated industry participation and network